Stephen Ip graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2008 with Distinction in Master of Architecture. While working in an architectural firm as an Associate Director, he also actively engages in competitions and community services to explore the synergistic interaction between architecture, community and environment. He has been the co-chairman of the Young Members Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects in 2015-2017 and organized numerous activities for young architects to reach out to the community, promoting architecture as a tool of intervention in Hong Kong. Ip is a member of the ArchiVision group, which has an interest in city-planning related issues, and the Hong Kong Architecture Centre, where he helped to organise the ‘My Most Liked Architecture in HK’ event and led an architectural tour to Japan.